About Me

Edie McGinnis, began her career with The Kansas City Star in 1987. She was the associate editor of Kansas City Star Quilts and an author with nearly 20 books to her credit. She wrote a popular weekly blog on the Kansas City Star Quilts website. She has also had several single patterns published and written articles for national quilting magazines.

Edie gives lectures and trunk shows on The Kansas City Star quilt patterns, their history and the designers who worked at The Star in the early years; feedsacks; scrap quilts; and using precuts. She has taught quilting at Primitives of the Midwest in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, and various workshops using her original patterns. She has been quilting for more than 35 years and is a member of the American Quilting Society.